Keys

[Martin Spies]

This topic is for announcements of recent publications providing keys to the identification of chironomid taxa.

Please NOTE that some keys are offered in works containing new taxon proposals, e.g. in genus revisions. Citations of such titles are not necessarily repeated in the present board of the Forum, but are listed in the "Taxa" category, "Recently published" board.

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2014 and earlier

Ahmad, A. K., Abd Aziz, Z., Shuhaimi-Othman, M. (2013) The first record of Robackia Saether[sic!] (Diptera: Chironomidae) from peninsular Malaysia. Serangga 18(2): 1-9.

Bitušík, P., Hamerlík, L. (2014) Príručka na určovanie lariev pakomárov (Diptera: Chironomidae) Slovenska. Časť 2. Tanypodinae. [Identification key for Chironomidae of Slovakia. Part 2. Tanypodinae.] Belianum. Vydavat. Univ. Matej Bela v Banskej Bystrici; 96 pp. ISBN 978-80-557-0799-0
[Available from:
http://publikacie.umb.sk/prirodne-vedy/vedy-o-zivej-prirode/prirucka-na-urcovanie-lariev-pakomarov-diptera-chironomidae-slovenska-cast-2-tanypodinae.html]

Day, J. A., Harrison, A. D., Moor, I. J. de (eds). (2003) Diptera. Guides to the freshwater invertebrates of southern Africa 9: x + 200 pp. Water Research Commission Report No. TT 201/02, Gezina, South Africa.

Epler, J. H. (2014) Identification guide to the larvae of the tribe Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Florida. Florida Dept Envir. Protection, Tallahassee; 77 pp.
[Available from: http://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/dear/labs/biology/biokeys/tanytarsini.pdf]http://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/dear/labs/biology/biokeys/tanytarsini.pdf]http://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/dear/labs/biology/biokeys/tanytarsini.pdf]

Orendt, C., Spies, M. (2014) Chironomus (Meigen) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Bestimmungsschlüssel zu den für die biologische Gewässeranalyse bedeutenden Larven in Deutschland und angrenzenden Gebieten. Nachdruck mit kleineren Korrekturen. / Chironomus (Meigen) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Key to the larvae of importance to biological water analysis in Germany and adjacent areas. Reprint with minor corrections. Published by the authors, Leipzig, Germany; 24 pp.

Pinho, L. C., Mendes, H. F., Andersen, T. (2014) Ordem Diptera. Família Chironomidae. Gênero Beardius Reiss & Sublette, 1985. In: Hamada, N., Nessimian, J. L., Querino, R. B. (eds): Insetos aquáticos na Amazônia brasileira: taxonomia, biologia e ecologia, pp. 661-676. Edit. INPA, Manaus, Brazil.

Prat, N., González-Trujillo, J. D., Ospina-Torres, R. (2014) Clave para la determinación de exuvias pupales de los quironómidos (Diptera: Chironomidae) de ríos altoandinos tropicales. Rev. Biol. Trop. 62(4): 1385-1406.

Silva, F. L., Neubern de Oliveira, C. S., Dantas, G. P. S. (2014) Estado da arte dos Tanypodinae da região Amazônica. In: Hamada, N., Nessimian, J. L., Querino, R. B. (eds): Insetos aquáticos na Amazônia brasileira: taxonomia, biologia e ecologia, pp. 677-682. Edit. INPA, Manaus, Brazil.

Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2014) Ordem Diptera. Família Chiromidae[sic!]. Guia de identificação de larvas. In: Hamada, N., Nessimian, J. L., Querino, R. B. (eds): Insetos aquáticos na Amazônia brasileira: taxonomia, biologia e ecologia, pp. 457-660. Edit. INPA, Manaus, Brazil.

Zakrzewska, M., Giłka, W. (2014) The oldest known chironomids of the tribe Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) indicate plesiomorphic character states. Geobios 47: 335-343.

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2015

Cuppen, H., Tempelman, D., Haaren, T. van (2015) Key for identification of 4th instar larvae of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 of north-western Europe (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini). Lauterbornia 79: 1-21.

Das, N., Majumdar, U., Mazumdar, A., Hazra, N. (2015) Life stages of eight new species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) of the Eastern Himalaya of India. Oriental Ins. [first publ. online, DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2015.1101723 (xi.2015); with pagin. in issue 49(1-2): 99-149 (ii.2016)]. NOTE that the paper does not mention deposition in ZooBank; thus, the new taxon names and any other nomenclature it proposes can be valid from the print edition only, which is dated 10 February 2016.

Langton, P. H. (2015) Metriocnemus ephemerus sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Northern Ireland. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(1): 35-42.

Lindegaard, C. (2015) Diptera (Two-winged or 'true' flies). Chironomidae (non-biting midges). Pp. 436-549 in: Böcher, J., †Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T., Vilhelmsen, L. (eds), The Greenland entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna ent. scand. 44: XV+881 pp.; Brill, Leiden + Boston.

Liu, W., Sun, B., Yan, C., Song, C., Wang, X. (2015) Two new species and one new record of Parakiefferiella Thienemann, 1936 from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 545: 139-148.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2015) A review of the genus Parorthocladius Thienemann, 1935 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 3974(3): 413-423.

Orendt, C., Dettinger-Klemm, A., Spies, M. (2015) Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Larven der Chironomidae (Diptera) der Brackgewässer Deutschlands und angrenzender Gebiete. [Determination keys for the larvae of Chironomidae (Diptera) in brackish waters of Germany and adjacent areas.]  In: Schilling, P. (ed.): Bund/Länder-Messprogramm für die Meeresumwelt von Nord- und Ostsee (BLMP) – Ber. Qual.sich.stelle 2013/1. Deutschland/Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau, etc.; 242 pp. ["2013"; in German]

Pape, T., Michelsen, V. (2015) Diptera (Two-winged or 'true flies). Generalities and family keys. Pp. 376-388 in: Böcher, J., †Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T., Vilhelmsen, L. (eds), The Greenland entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna ent. scand. 44: XV+881 pp.; Brill, Leiden + Boston.

Paul, N., Mazumdar, A. (2015) Chaudhuriomyia, a new tanypod genus of Macropelopiini (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from the eastern Himalaya. Zootaxa 3955(4): 537-548.

Paul, N., Niitsuma, H., Mazumdar, A. (2015) A new species of the genus Ablabesmyia Johannsen from the eastern Himalayan foothills in India, with a key to Indian species of the nominotypical subgenus (Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanypodinae). Far Eastern Ent. 295: 1-7.

Polukonova, N. V., Demina[Dyomina], I. V., Ermokhin[Yermokhin], M. V. (2015) Osobennosti vidovoi diagnostik imago podsemeistva Chironominae iz poimennykh ozer r. Volgi (Saratovskaya oblast') pri issledovanii potokov veshchestva i energii mezhdu vodnymi i nasemnymi ekosistemami. (Features of species diagnostics of the imago of the subfamily of Chironominae from floodplane[sic!] lakes of Volga River (Saratov Region). At[sic!] research of flows of substance and energy between water and land ecosystems). Izvest. saratovsk. Univ., Ser. Khim. Biol. Ekol. 15(4): 54-62. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Rossaro, B., Lencioni, V. (2015a) A key to larvae of species belonging to the genus Diamesa from Alps and Apennines (Italy). Europ. J. Envir. Scis 5(1): 62-79.

Rossaro, B., Lencioni, V. (2015b) A key to larvae of Diamesa Meigen, 1835 (Diptera, Chironomidae), well known as adult males and pupae from Alps (Europe). J. Entomol. Acarol. Res. 47(3): 123-138. [DOI: 10.4081/jear.2015.5516]

Stur, E., Ekrem, T. (2015) A review of Norwegian Gymnometriocnemus (Diptera, Chironomidae) including the description of two new species and a new name for Gymnometriocnemus volitans (Goetghebuer) sensu Brundin. ZooKeys 508: 127-142 + online suppl. file.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Pepinelli, M. (2015) A systematic study on Endotribelos Grodhaus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Brazil including DNA barcoding to link males and females. Zootaxa 3936(1): 001-041.

Yan, C.-c., Yan, J., Jiang, L., Guo, Q., Liu, T., Ge, X.-y., Wang, X.-h., Pan, B.-p. (2015) Parachironomus Lenz from China and Japan (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 494: 31-50.

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2016

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N., Mendes, H. F. (2016) Contribution to the knowledge of Stenochironomus Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Brazil: seven new species and description of females and immatures of some previously known species. Zootaxa 4117(1): 1-47.

Fu, Y., Huang, J., Liu, W., Fang, X., Wang, X. (2016) Redescription of 13 holotypes of Rheocricotopus Brundin, 1956 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Sino-Indian Region. Zootaxa 4114(3): 261-276.

Hazra, N., Brahma, S., Sanyal, K. (2016) New species of Rheotanytarsus Thienemann and Bause (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini) from Darjeeling–Sikkim, Himalaya, India, with revised keys to the adult males and pupae of the species of the Oriental Region. Psyche 2016, 14 pp.; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5924521

Langton, P. H. (2016) Corrections to: Langton, P.H. 2015. Metriocnemus ephemerus sp. nov. (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Northern Ireland. Dipterists Digest (Second Series) 22, 35-42. Dipterists Digest, Sec. Ser. 22(2): 213-216. ["2015"]

Liu, W., Ferrington, L. C. Jr, Wang, X. (2016) Sympotthastia wuyiensis sp. n. from China, with description of the immature stages of S. takatensis (Tokunaga) (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4126(3): 427-434.

Liu, W., Ferrington, L. C. Jr, Wang, X. (2016) First record of Odontomesa Pagast from China, with description of the immature stages of O. ferringtoni Sæther (Diptera, Chironomidae, Prodiamesinae). Zootaxa 4132(1): 135-142.

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A. (2016) Dva novykh vida khironomid roda Cricotopus (s. str.) gruppy tremulus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) s Rossiiskogo Dal'nego Vostoka. (Two new species of Cricotopus (s. str.) tremulus group (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East.). Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 15, Suppl. 1: 94-102. [in Russian, with English abstract]

Montagna, M., Urbanelli, S., Rossaro, B. (2016) The species of the genus Diamesa (Diptera, Chironomidae) known to occur in Italian Alps and Apennines. Zootaxa 4193(2): 317-331.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Orsini, A. (2016) On the genus Potthastia Kieffer, 1922 from Corsica and continental France with description of three new species [Diptera, Chironomidae, Diamesinae]. Ephemera 17(1): 1-36. ["2015"]

Namayandeh, A., Culp, J. M. (2016) Chironomidae larvae from the lower Athabasca River, AB, Canada and its tributaries including macroscopic subfamily and tribe keys, indices for environmental tolerance and trait-based information for biomonitoring. J. Ent. Acarol. Res. 48(2): 201-300.

Niitsuma, H. (2016) Two species of Nilothauma Kieffer (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Japan, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4079(5): 573-581.

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2018) Two new species of the genus Cryptotendipes Lenz[sic!] (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with a worldwide key to the genus. Oriental Insects: 12 pp. [first publ. online (29.iii.2018); with pagin. in issue 53(1): 34-45 (i.2019)]

Qi, X., Tang, H., Wang, X. (2016) Notes on Nilothauma Kieffer from Oriental China, with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 574: 143-159.

Tang, H. (2016) Paralauterborniella from Oriental China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Oriental Insects 50(4): 160-170.

Tang, H. Q., Liu, J., Chen, J. Y., Zhang, E. L. (2016) Redescription of Microchironomus trisetifer (Hashimoto, 1981) and description of immature stages of Microchironomus tabarui Sasa, 1987 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae). Pan-Pacific Entomol. 92(1): 19-31.

Zhang, R., Liu, W., Ferrington, L. C. Jr, Wang, X. (2016) Two new species of genus Hydrosmittia Ferrington & Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China. Zootaxa 4121(2): 167-174.

Zhang, R., Song, Ch., Wang, X. (2016) Taxonomic review on the subgenus Tripodura Townes (Diptera: Chironomidae: Polypedilum) from China with eleven new species and a supplementary world checklist. Zootaxa 4136(1): 1-53.

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2017

Dantas, G. P. S., Hamada, N. (2017) Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Neotropical region: five new species, new records and updated keys. Zootaxa 4358(1): 45-78.

Fang, X., Fu, Y., Huang, J., Wang, X. (2017) Revision of two holotypes of Nanocladius Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with a key to males from the[sic!] East Asia. Entomotaxonomia 39(1): 68-76.

Fu, Y., Fang, X., Wang, X. (2017) Taxonomy of Corynoneura Winnertz (Diptera: Chironomidae). Science Press, Beijing; vi + 293 pp.

Lin, X.-L., Wang, X.-H. (2017) A redescription of Zavrelia bragremia Guo & Wang, 2007 (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 30: 67-71. [publd online (x.2017)]

Mauch, E. (2017) Aquatische Diptera-Larven in Mittel-, Nordwest- und Nordeuropa. Übersicht über die Formen und ihre Identifikation. (Aquatic Diptera larvae in Central, Northwest and North Europe. The forms and their identification, a survey). Lauterbornia 83: 404 pp. [publd 28.xi.2017; in German, with English abstract; with contributions by Faasch, H. (drawings), Eiseler, F. (photos), Schiffels, S. (on Chironomidae)]

Vallenduuk, H. J. (2017) Chironomini larvae of western European lowlands (Diptera: Chironomidae). Keys with notes to the species. With a redescription of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) nagorskayae and a first description of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) kaluginae new species. Lauterbornia 82: 1-216. [publd 20.ii.2017; with contributions by Durnova, N. (Glyptotendipes), Hop, H. (Microtendipes and Parachironomus), Tempelman, D. (Polypedilum); see also corrections and additions in Lauterbornia 84]

Vallenduuk, H. J. (2017) Corrections and additional information to Vallenduuk, H. J (2017): "Chironomidae larvae of western European lowlands (Diptera: Chironomidae).- Lauterbornia 82: 1-216. Lauterbornia 84: 165-168. [publd 15.xii.2017]

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2018

Andersen, T. (2018) A new species of Claudiotendipes Andersen, Mendes & Pinho, 2017 from Bolivia (Diptera, Chironomidae). Norw. J. Ent. 65(1): 22-25.

Andersen, T., Donato, M., Hagenlund, L. K., Mauad, M., Mendes, H. F. (2018) A review of Neotropical Axarus, with the description of five new species (Diptera: Chironomidae). Stud. neotrop. Fauna Envir.: 17 pp. [first publ. online (13.iv.2018)]

Chen, Sh., Zhang, R., Ferrington, L. C., Jr (2018) A new species of Harnischia Kieffer, 1918 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Mongolia. J. Kansas ent. Soc. 90(4): 334-340. ["2017" but paper "Accepted 16 April 2018"; publd x.2018]

Cranston, P. S. (2018) Kribiodorum Kieffer (= Stelechomyia Reiss) (Diptera: Chironomidae) extends into the Oriental region: three new species and expanded diagnoses. Zootaxa 4486(4): 535-547.

Cranston, P. S., Tang, H. (2018) Skusella Freeman (Diptera: Chironomidae): new species, immature stages from Africa, Asia and Australia, and expanded distributions. Zootaxa 4450(1): 041-065.

Cuppen, H., Tempelman, D. (2018) Identification key for the 4th stage larvae of northwest European species of Cricotopus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Lauterbornia 85: 69-90.

Epler, J. H. (2018) The genus Cryptotendipes Beck et Beck in Florida, with the description of a new species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae). Zootaxa 4433(3): 583-594.

Fusari, L. M., Dantas, G. P. S., Pinho, L. C. (2018) Order Diptera. Pp. 607-623 in: Hamada, N., Thorp, J. H., Rogers, D. C. (eds): Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda. Thorp and Covich's freshwater invertebrates, fourth edition - Volume III. Academic Press, London, etc.; xxiv+811 pp.

Hamerlík, L., Silva, F. L. da, Jacobsen, D. (2018) Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Ecuadorian high-altitude streams: a survey and illustrated key. Florida Ent. 101(4): 663-675.

Kodama, A., Kawai, K., Saito, H. (2018) A new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae) and the first Japanese record of Tanytarsus ovatus Johannsen, 1932 with DNA barcodes. Zootaxa 4422(4): 591-599.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Ashe, P. (2018) Cricotopus (s. str.) latellai sp. n., a new rheophilic species of the tremulus-group from the Italian and French Maritime Alps (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 31: 4-15. [publd online (29.vi.2018)]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Gaultier, P. (2018) On the genus Heleniella Gowin, 1943 (extrema-gr.). I. H. gaultieri sp. n., a crenophilous species confined to glacial streams in eastern Pyrenees [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 19(2): 71-81. ["2017 (2018)"]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Kettani, K. (2018) Description of Rheotanytarsus langtoni sp. n. from the Rif of north-western Morocco [Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanytarsini]. Ephemera 19(2): 83-94. ["2017 (2018)"]

Namayandeh, A., Beresford, D. V. (2018) A new species in Rheocricotopus (R.) effusus group from Canada with review of Nearctic species of Rheocricotopus and Parametriocnemus (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 31: 16-29. [publd online (27.xii.2018)]

Niitsuma, H. Yamamoto, M. (2018) Yusurika-ka Chironomidae. Pp. 1307-1443 [Yusurika-ka 1-137] in: Kawai, T., Tanida, K. (eds): Aquatic insects of Japan: Manual with keys and illustrations. Second edition. Tokai Univ. Press, Kanagawa. [vol. 1: i-xiv, 1-790; vol. 2: i-vi, 791-1661; index vol.: 1665-1731. In Japanese]
[NOTES: Includes richly illustrated keys at genus-group level for adult males and larvae. Pp. 1307-1367 [Yusurika-ka 1-61] by Niitsuma: introduction; keys to subfamilies; Tanypodinae, Podonominae, Telmatogetoninae, Prodiamesinae, Diamesinae; references. Pp. 1368-1443 [Yusurika-ka 62-137] by Yamamoto: Orthocladiinae, Chironominae; references.]

Orel, O. V., Bazova, N. V. (2018) New species of the genus Microtendipes Kieffer, 1915 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Buryatia (Russia). Zootaxa 4425(1): 175-184.

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2018a) Pre-imaginal and adult stages of one new species of the genus Glyptotendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from West Bengal, India. Oriental Insects 52(4): 369-381. [publd 4.i.2018]

Pal, G., Hazra, N. (2018b) Two new species of the genus Cryptotendipes Lenz[sic!] (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with a worldwide key to the genus. 12 pp. [first publd online (29.iii.2018); with pagin. in issue 53(1): 34-45 (i.2019)]

Silva, F. L. da, Pinho, L. C., Wiedenbrug, S., Dantas, G. P. S., Siri, A., Andersen, T., Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2018) Order Diptera. Pp. 661-700 in: Hamada, N., Thorp, J. H., Rogers, D. C. (eds): Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda. Thorp and Covich's freshwater invertebrates, fourth edition - Volume III. Academic Press, London, etc.; xxiv+811 pp.

Trivinho-Strixino, S., Shimabukuro, E. M. (2018) Brazilian Pseudochironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae) Part 2. New Pseudochironomus and Riethia species. Zootaxa 4403(2): 245-260.

Yan, Ch., Liu, T., Cao, W, Zhao, G., Liu, W. (2018) A review of the Japanese Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918 (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 771: 139-155.

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Special note

I have been informed that the Lucid key to Chironomidae that I produced nearly a decade ago has been ported to an improved platform:
https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/Chironomidae/index.html

This avoids issues with Java Applets, and now uses the newest JavaScript based Lucid Player. This should be cross-platform and work on Firefox on Macs and PC (at least all that I've tested it on).

It's linked from http://apes.skullisland.info/node/3 where most of my reprints are located.

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Pete Cranston, 30 August 2019   [posted here by M. Spies]

[Martin Spies]

2019

Andersen, T., Pinho, L. C. (2019) A new species of Fissimentum Cranston & Nolte, 1996 from the state of São Paulo, Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae, Chironominae). Biotemas 32(4, Dec.): 45-49. [in English, with Portuguese abstract]

Cranston, P. S. (2019b) Riethia (Kieffer 1917) (Diptera: Chironomidae) revised for the Austro-Pacific Region. Zootaxa 4646(3): 461-500. [publd 25.vii.2019]

Cranston, P. S. (2019c) Identification guide to genera of aquatic larval Chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 4706(1): 71-102. [publd 6.xii.2019]

Dantas, G. P. S., Amat, E., Hernandez-Rangel, S. M. (2019) A new Andean species of Ablabesmyia Johannsen from Colombia (Diptera: Chironomidae) with an updated taxonomic key for Neotropical species. Studs neotrop. Fauna Envir. 55(2): 96-102. [first publd online 16.xii.2019]

Donato, M., Siri, A. (2019) Phylogeny and new species of the genus Lipurometriocnemus Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae). Arthropod Systs & Phyl. 77(2): 339-349 + online suppl. material. [first publd online 17.ix.2019]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Zhang, R.-L., Wang, X.-H. (2019) Polypedilum (Cerobregma) heberti sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4571(2): 255-262. [publd 26.iii.2019; for Erratum, see Lin et al. (2020)]

Makarchenko, E. A. (2019) Review of the genus Pagastia Oliver (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from North America, with description of P. (P.) subletteorum sp. nov. Zootaxa 4664(1): 115-128. [publd 2.ix.2019]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A. (2019a) Towards the taxonomy of Corynoneura Winnertz (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East and eastern Siberia. Zootaxa 4612(2): 221-236. [publd 29.v.2019]

Makarchenko, E. A., Makarchenko, M. A., Semenchenko, A. A. (2019b) Morphological description and DNA barcoding of Hydrobaenus laticaudus Sæther, 1976 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Amur River basin (Russian Far East). Zootaxa 4674(2): 225-234. [publd 24.ix.2019]

Pepinelli, M., Shimabukuro, E. M., Siri, A., Trivinho-Strixino, S. (2019) Revisiting Brundin’s collection, part I – larval description of three species of the genus Podonomus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Podonominae) with identification key for known larvae. J. nat. Hist. 53(1-2): 57-71. [First publ. online (19.ii.2019); DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1567855]

Vallenduuk, H. J. (2019)  Chironomini larvae of western European lowlands (Diptera: Chironomidae). Keys with notes to the species. With an updated description of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) nagorskayae new species[sic!] and redescription of Glyptotendipes (Caulochironomus) kaluginae new species[sic!]. Corrected reprint. Lauterbornia 82: 1-217. [publd 30.x.2019; widely modified re-edition of Vallenduuk (2017); see also the corrections and additions in Lauterbornia 84 (2017). With contributions by Durnova, N., Hop, H., Tempelman, D.]

Yan, Ch., Liu, T., Cao, W., Zhang, X., Liu, W. (2019) Review of Epoicocladius Šulc et Zavrel from China (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4590(2): 289-295.

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2020

Cuppen, H., Gresens, S. E., Tempelman, D. (2020) Description of the larvae of Cricotopus festivellus (Kieffer 1906) and Cricotopus diversus (Boesel 1983) with keys to discrimination of larval, pupal and adult stages (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 33: 4-16. [publd online (25.ii.2020)]

Fu, Y., Wang, X.-H., Fang, X.-L., Xiao, Y.-L., Fu, J., Lin, X.-L. (2020) Corynoneura Winnertz (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) from Zhejiang Province, China. Zootaxa 4890(1): 83-96. [publd 1.xii.2020]

Fu, Y., Wang, X.-H., Fang, X.-L., Xiao, Y.-L., Lin, X.-L. (2020) Thienemanniella dapanensis (Diptera : Chironomidae : Orthocladiinae), a new species from Zhejiang Province, China, and redescription of two Thienemanniella species. Annls zool. fenn. 57: 209-214. [publd online 29.ix.2020]

Konar, S., Majumdar, U. (2020) Two new species of the genus Glyptotendipes Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from West Bengal India. Oriental Insects 55(3): 386-399. [publd online 8.xi.2020, with issue pagin. 3.vii.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Wang, Q., Bu, W.-J., Wang, X.-H. (2020) DNA barcodes and morphology confirm a new species of Rheocricotopus (Psilocricotopus) orientalis group (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4768(2): 282-290. [publd 1.v.2020]

Liu, W., Cao, W., Zhao, C., Yan, Ch. (2020) Parachaetocladius squamula (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae), a new species from China. Annls zool. fenn. 57: 145-149. [publd online 15.vi.2020]

Makarchenko, E. A., Hansen, D. C. (2020) Pagastia (P.) donoliveri sp. nov.—a new Nearctic alpine stream chironomid species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from the Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming, U.S.A. Zootaxa 4755(1): 171-176. [publd 23.iii.2020]

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2020) Pseudorthocladius ledoarei sp. n., a crenophilous species occurring in a cold karstic stream from eastern France [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 21(2): 71-82.

Moubayed-Breil, J. (2020) Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) bernardae sp. nov. and P. (Ur.) claudei sp. nov., two new species from eastern France [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 21(2): 83-95.

Moubayed-Breil, J., Langton, P. (2020) Polypedilum (Uresipedilum) tissoti sp. n., a new species occurring in alkaline peat bogs and wet sedge meadows in north eastern France [Diptera, Chironomidae, Chironominae]. Ephemera 21(1): 1-10.

Mukherjee, B., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2020) A new species of the genus Cryptotendipes Beck et Beck, 1969 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India, with a world key to the males and tentative phylogenetic relationship. Zootaxa 4896(2): 201-223. [publd 21.xii.2020]

Mukherjee, T., Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2020) Revision of the Oriental species of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) with their phylogenetic relationship. Zootaxa 4820(1): 31-69. [publd 27.vii.2020]

Namayandeh, A., Moubayed, J., Ghaderi, E., Beresford, D. V. (2020) A review of the genera Georthocladius Strenzke, 1941 and Parachaetocladius Wülker, 1959 (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae): new species descriptions, and keys based on the morphological characters of adult male. Polish J. Ent. 89(2): 59-80. [orig. publd with erroneous vol. nr "90"]

Pinho, L. C., Silva, F. L. da (2020) Description of two new species of Polypedilum (Asheum) and immature stages of Polypedilum (A.) curticaudatum (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4759(2): 179-190. [publd 2.iv.2020]

Polukonova et al. (2015); see the "2015" section above.

Tang, H., Niitsuma, H. (2020) Review of the genus Amnihayesomyia Niitsuma (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae), with descriptions of three new species from China. Zootaxa 4743(3): 411-418. [publd 26.ii.2020]

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2021

Duan, X., Chang, T., Jiao, K.-L., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2021) Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962, a newly recorded genus from Oriental China (Diptera, Chironomidae) with a description of Monopelopia zhengi Lin sp. n. Zootaxa 4980(2): 383-388. [publd 1.vi.2021]

Fang, X.-L., Wang, X.-H., Xiao, Y.-L., Fu, Y. (2021) Thienemanniella convexa (Diptera, Chironomidae), a new species from Hunan Province, China. Annls zool. fenn. 59(1): 29-33. [publd online 2.viii.2021]

Giłka, W., Zakrzewska, M., Lukashevich, E. D., Vorontsov, D. D., Soszyńska-Maj, A., Skibińska, K., Cranston, P. S.(2021) Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 194(3): 874-892. [publd online 16.vi.2021, with issue pagin. iii.2022]

Hamerlík, L., Silva, F. L. da (2021) Chironomidae of Central America. An illustrated introduction to larval subfossils. CRC Press, Boca Raton; 198 pp.

Lencioni, V., Moubayed, J. (2021) Synorthocladius federicoi sp. nov., a new species occurring in the middle basin of the Adige River, northern Italy (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). ZooKeys 1057: 105-116. [publd 27.viii.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yao, Y., Yan, Ch.-C., Liu, W.-B. (2021) Stenochironomus zhengi sp. nov. from Dawei Mountain National Park, Yunnan, China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 4970(2): 385-390. [publd 14.v.2021]

Lin, X.-L., Yu, H.-J., Wang, X.-H., Bu, W.-J., Yan, Ch.-C., Liu, W.-B. (2021) New or little-known Boreoheptagyia (Diptera, Chironomidae) in China inferred from morphology and DNA barcodes. ZooKeys 1040: 187-200. [publd 28.v.2021]

Liu, W.-B., Yao, Y., Yan, Ch.-C., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2021) A new species of Polypedilum (Cerobregma) (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Oriental China. ZooKeys 1011: 139-148. [publd 22.i.2021]

Liu, W., Zhao, C., Kong, F., Yan, Ch., Wang, X. (2021) New species of Limnophyes Eaton (Diptera, Chironomidae) from China and synonymy of L. fuscipygmus Tokunaga, 1940. ZooKeys 1011: 51-61. [publd 18.i.2021]

Makarchenko, E. A., Semenchenko, A. A., Palatov, D. M. (2021) New species and findings of Pagastia Oliver (Diptera: Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from Central Asia, with DNA barcoding of known species of the genus. Zootaxa 4951(3): 559-570. [publd 7.iv.2021]

Makarchenko, E. A., Yavorskaya, N. M. (2021) Redescription of the little-known chironomid species Parachaetocladius akanoctavus Sasa et Kamimura, 1987 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Russian Far East. Evraziat. Entomol. Zh. (= Euroas. Entomol. J.) 20(3): 119-124. [in English, some texts also in Russian]

Moubayed-Breil, J., Mary, N. (2021) Smittia zealandiana sp. n. a new semi-aquatic species occurring in the moss carpet of riparian Habitat in Mont Panié, New Caledonia [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 22(1): 11-21.

Orel, O. V. (2021) Revision of the genus Neozavrelia Goetghebuer, Thienemann, 1941 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4938(3): 251-297. [publd 1.iii.2021]

Orendt, C., Bendt, Th. (2021) Orthocladiinae sensu lato (Orthocladiinae, Prodiamesinae, Diamesinae, Podonominae, Buchonomyiinae, Telmatogetoninae) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Keys to Central European larvae with respect to macroscopic characters. DGL Tools (DGL-Arbeitshilfen) 1-2021; German Limnol. Soc. (DGL e. V.), Essen; [2]+140 pp.

Pinho, L. C., Andersen, T. (2021) Neotropical Nilothauma Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera, Chironomidae): Key, eleven new species, re-descriptions, new combination and new records. ZooKeys 1033: 81-125. [publd 22.iv.2021]

Schiffels, S., Bendt, T., Schäfer, L. (2021) Taxonomie für die Praxis. Bestimmungshilfen – Makrozoobenthos (4). Chironomidenlarven. Band 1 – Chironomini. LANUV-Arbeitsblatt 50, Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen, Recklinghausen; 293 pp. [NOTE: not a key in a classical sense, but an 'identification aid' offering genus and species profiles with many high-quality photographs; may be ordered for € 25 + postage via: https://www.lanuv.nrw.de/landesamt/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/arbeitsblaetter[/url]]

Shimabukuro, E. M., Dantas, G. P. S., Lamas, C. J. E. (2021) A new madicolous species of Nilotanypus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Amazon region, northwestern Brazil. Zootaxa 4948(3): 431-438. [publd 22.iii.2021]

Song, Ch., Zhu, B., Liu, W., Qi, X. (2021) On the genus Polypedilum, subgenus Collartomyia, with description of P. (Col.) baishanzuensis sp. nov. from Baishanzu Nature Reserve, China (Diptera, Chironomidae). ZooKeys 1065: 1-12. [publd 22.x.2021]

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2022

Bendt, T., Schiffels, S. (2022) Taxonomie für die Praxis. Bestimmungshilfen – Makrozoobenthos (4). Chironomidenlarven. Band 2 – Tanypodinae, Diamesinae, Prodiamesinae, Podonominae, Telmatogetoninae, Buchonomyiinae und Tanytarsini. LANUV-Arbeitsblatt 50, Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen, Recklinghausen; 330 pp. [NOTE: not a key in a classical sense, but an 'identification aid' offering genus and species profiles with many high-quality photographs; may be ordered via: https://www.lanuv.nrw.de/landesamt/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/arbeitsblaetter]

Cuppen, H., Tempelman, D. (2022) Identification keys for the 4th stage larvae and pupal exuviae of north west European species of Orthocladius Van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae). Lauterbornia 88: 83-124. [publd 26.iv.2022]

Krasheninnikov, A. B., Przhiboro, A. A. (2022) On taxonomy of the subgenus Amblycladius of the genus Chaetocladius (Diptera, Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5168(4): 494-500.  [publd 25.vii.2022]

Mondal, D., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2022) On a new species of the genus Zavrelimyia Fittkau, 1962 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from India with cladistic relationship and a world key to the known males. Zootaxa 5154(3): 365-379. [publd 15.vi.2022]

Mondal, D., Mukherjee, T., Hazra, N. (2022) Two new species of Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962 from forests in India along with a key to adult males of Oriental and Palearctic species (Diptera: Chironomidae). CHIRONOMUS J. Chironomidae Res. 35: 32-42. [publd 17.viii.2022]

Moubayed, J., Clévenot, P. (2022) Smittia balmea, S. corsicana and S. tyrrhena, spp. n. three new semiterrestrial species from continental France and Corsica [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 23(1): 29-42.

Moubayed, J., Guisset, P. (2022) Pseudorthocladius queretanus sp. n., a crenophilous species inhabiting a cold stream in Eastern Pyrenees, France [Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae]. Ephemera 23(1): 7-16.

Moubayed, J., Langton, P. (2022) Redescription of the type specimens of Georthocladius (Georthocladius) collarti (Goet., 1941) and Parachaetocladius scaturiginis (Goet., 1940) n. comb. with keys to the European species [Diptera, Chironomidae]. Ephemera 23(1): 17-28.

Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2022) First records of three genera, Cyphomella Sæther, 1977, Olecryptotendipes Zorina, 2007 and Robackia Sæther, 1977 of the Harnischia complex from India with description of O. extentus sp. n., O. obtunsus sp. n. and R. aequilongia sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5091(2): 330-340. [publd 13.i.2022]

Mukherjee, B., Hazra, N. (2022) Two new species of Demicryptochironomus Lenz, 1941 from India with tentative phylogenetic relationship and a revised world key to known males (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 5175(1): 88-100. [publd 15.viii.2022]

Qi, X., Yao, Y., Liu, W.-B., Yan, Ch.-C., Wang, X.-H., Lin, X.-L. (2022) Review of the Rheotanytarsus muscicola species group from China (Diptera: Chironomidae). Diversity [Basle] 14(5, paper 383): 16 pp. [publd online 12.v.2022]

Rossaro, B., Marziali, L., Magoga, G., Montagna, M., Boggero, A. (2022) Corrections and additions to descriptions of some species of the subgenus Orthocladius s. str. (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae). Insects 13(1, item 51): 1-24 + online suppl. material. [publd 2.i.2022]